Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-07-09
FROM RENO.
Several Ly onites spend Their Fourth
There-what They Did.

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RENO, July 6, 1857.
Ed. lyon County 7Imes:-Several Lyon.
ties came to Reno on the Fourth to watch |
the great American eagle in his paroxysms
Of delight at having attained the ripe old
age Of III years. The old bird acquitted
himself we'll; but his actions, though bril-
liant, was too short. lived to please the null
titude. He appeared in several roles dur.
ing the day, and "between the acts" visit.
ors had ample time to view the much. boom
ed beauties Of this riverside burg. Veracity
being the very staff Of your correspondents
existence, it pains him TO have to chronicle
the effect a visit to the sagebrdsh Chicago
had upon some Of Lyons brightest young
men. To spare the feelings Of the parties
concerned, will clothe the jagged edges Of
truth in consoling brevity:
Ed. Maxwell hired horse aud buggy
to visit the Insane Asylum. He found it,
and an hour later was driving wildly
through the streets Of Reno when he en-
countered me and pulling up abruptly asked:
"Am here or am not; if not, where am
II Been down to the cranks' hstel. DID
if everybody there amt crazy-crazy as bed
bugs. every one of them. Believe this plugs
caught the disease; don't know enough to
find his way to the stable. Say, do you
think I'm 'locoed' MYSELF" Willing hands
guided the erring horse to his domicile and
kind friends put the excited Ed. to bed and
swathed his head in wet towels. 1t would
be a hard matter to convince Ed. that there
is single sane man in Reno.
Later in the afternoon Cal Guild attracted
attention by rushing aimlessly about through
the crowd like man who had been sent
for and couldn't come. "What's the mat.
ter" asked /. "Im looking for a saloon
amt there one in this blasted town." he
asked as he leaned up against beer sign,
and continued: "Behold the fearful consc
quences of water-drnking. I've filled ur
on the blamed stuff and I don't know
whether I'm in Egypt or Sutro. 1t nevel
objected me this way before. took drink
of water less than year ago and it didn'
hurt me bit." poured a schooner o
beer down the sufferers throat and he be
came calm enough to say: "l1l neve
again tackle the sawdnst.scented water o
Reno; dire necessity may drive me to i'm
bibe Of Comstock tailings diluted with mel
ted snow, but Reno water-never. Liv
beer, barkeep."
Harry Randall OF Silver City is eternal,
down on Reno. When the Grand Marshal
tried to procure one Of Harry shoes for thu
car Of State he got only mildly angry; Blu
when the manager of the horribles offered t.
put wheels under the genial millman's foot
gear, rig seats in it and use it as a banc
wagon, Harry was furious, red hot. HI
went I'D sat on the railroad bridge to coo
of AM " ait for the homeward bound train
Lou Burt tried for half an hour to light
cigar by an electric light lamp and fnall,
gave it up, saying; "That beats me- FRI
that won't burn; hope the devil will adop
the process"
Tom Mayne didn't want to leave the town
He says there's girls enough in Reno to &c
round. "If fellow hired buggy here tc
take a girl out riding and she went bacl
on him, the whole population wouldn'
know it, because he could get another t.
fill the vacancy"
Has Tom Mack got home YETI You
genial Superintendent Of Schools has. it ap
pears, let his official zeal get him intt
trouble. When last seen by his friends h,
was surrounded by bevy Of pretty schoo
marms, vociferously explaining to him thu
mysteries Of the K,nderg system. 1t il
feared that he allowed himself to be led OF
over the river to the south side school hous,
to witness the system in practical operation
Col. P. Quinn says there's only one pc
sitien he'd rather have than principal owner
ship Of the Haywood mine-The Lord May
or ship Of Reno. GA. R.
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